Brush Preset always grayed out in CS4

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Eric_C_Downing
Mar 13, 2009
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Can someone help me with the Brush Preset in CS4?
I selected a shape and when I go to Edit->Define Brush Preset… it is grayed out.
I tried to go to the brush palette as well and it only lets me redefine a brush, not create a new one.

Has anyone seen this? Any help?

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John Joslin
Mar 13, 2009
The purpose of Edit->Define Brush Preset… is to turn an active selection in an image to a custom brush.
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Eric_C_Downing
Mar 14, 2009
It turns out the problem was actually that brushes have a max size of 2500 pixels and if your canvas is over that size, it will not allow even a smaller selection to be a brush preset and that is why my Define brush preset was grayed out.
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Chris_Cox
Mar 14, 2009
Hmm, it should go by the selection size not the document size. Check your selection feathering (in case that was increasing the selection size).
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Eric_C_Downing
Mar 16, 2009
Thanks Chris, After a little more experimentation with the brush preset I see that it does in fact work by selection size. My selection was just a little too large.
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orandeeo
Dec 21, 2013
On Sunday, March 15, 2009 10:49:30 PM UTC-4, wrote:
Thanks Chris, After a little more experimentation with the brush preset I see that it does in fact work by selection size. My selection was just a little too large.

My document is 200 x 300 and the selection is less than that. I tried a line created with a path and then just a little blob created with a brush. The document has one layer. Nothing activates the Define Brush Preset. Some others have found that document or selection size matters when defining a brush and others are like me. Over four years have passed and this has not been fixed?

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